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Re:HDD Components Maker Hoya Describes 22TB and 24TB Hard Dr... by droffel on Saturday November 07, 2020 @10:15PM (#25022531)
> That still trades off density for speed

It does not. RAID-0 has no duplication, it acts effectively like your independent arms. No density tradeoff, just speed.

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Re:HDD Components Maker Hoya Describes 22TB and 24TB Hard Dr... by R0b0t1 on Sunday November 08, 2020 @10:27AM (#25026306)
There is a tradeoff: With RAID0 your parallelization for read or write is on the scale of 24TB chunks, not within 24TB chunks.
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